Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Magic Leap is one of the most well-funded startups in history, boasting $2.6 A new report from The Information however alleges that the company has seen sluggish sales of its Magic Leap One AR headset, something that reportedly only sold 6,000 units in the first six months following its August 2018 launch.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

Magic Leap has entered a "multi-faceted, strategic technology partnership" with Google. The companies say the partnership will combine Magic Leap's "leadership in optics and manufacturing" with Google's "technology platforms". Google was an initial investor in Magic Leap, leading a $542 million funding round back in 2014.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

To significant anticipation, Microsoft revealed HoloLens 2 earlier this week at MWC 2019. By all accounts it looks like a beautiful and functional piece of technology and a big step forward for Microsoft’s AR initiative. Image courtesy Microsoft. “More Than Double” …What, Exactly? From 2x to 5.2x.

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ARPost

JANUARY 13, 2020

2019 was a big year for XR headsets, applications, and technology. Here, we’ll be taking a look at the AR and MR headsets and glasses that caught our attention in 2019 and that we’ll be keeping an eye on going into 2020. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 is one of the most advanced MR headsets on the market. Magic Leap 1.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

First identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan towards the tail-end of 2019, Chinese authorities are now reporting thousands of confirmed cases across the massive country. Still, nCoV-2019 Tracker serves as an excellent example of VR’s potential as a data visualization tool.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2020

Founded in 2016 by Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, the company’s social AR/VR workspace has since gone on to include support for Microsoft HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest, Magic Leap 1, Qualcomm XR2, Android/iPhone mobile device and traditional monitors.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. I hope for Magic Leap that the next device, Magic Leap 2, will be better. fast replacement of a broken unit).

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Nreal is probably best known for its smartphone-tethered AR glasses, dubbed Nreal Light which made headlines back at CES 2019 for its relatively small form-factor in comparison to Magic Leap One or Microsoft HoloLens. Image courtesy Nreal. Nreal Light achieves this by offloading processing to a compatible smartphone.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Coronavirus, otherwise known as the 2019 novel coronavirus, is primarily affecting China. Created by MIT graduate and XR strategist Michael DiBenigno, the so-called ‘nCoV-2019 Tracker’ takes you through some basic information on the virus’ outbreak, and where it’s traveled day by day up until February 4th.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 31, 2023

Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will "cease to function" from 31 December 2024, the company announced. Magic Leap sent an email to all customers containing the following: As such, we are announcing that Magic Leap 1 end of life date will be December 31, 2024. The company today is still fully focused on enterprise.

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Upload VR

MAY 22, 2023

Meta is in talks with Magic Leap over a potential "multiyear agreement", the Financial Times reports. The original Magic Leap One launched in 2018 as the first AR headset available to consumers, priced at $2300. Of the big tech giants only Microsoft bet on transparent optics, and HoloLens 2 is now almost three years old.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident. Some weeks ago, I’ve reported of rumors about Magic Leap being in big trouble and having assigned all its patents as collateral to bank JP Morgan, probably because it is looking for a loan or to raise a round E.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2024

” That’s not really unusual as far as AR devices go, like HoloLens 2 or Magic Leap 2—a product category that typically uses waveguides pared with micoOLEDs in place of the passthrough cameras and traditional VR headset displays that we’re used to seeing in the company’s mixed reality headsets Quest 3 and Quest Pro.

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AR Insider

APRIL 16, 2021

M icrosoft’s Hololens2 isn’t a new device, having released in November 2019. XR Talks: Microsoft Doubles Down on AR. This is the reason that Microsoft has solely targeted the enterprise for HoloLens 2. The enterprise focus is comparatively what Magic Leap failed to do — at least at first.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

It is something that I say since the beginning of 2019 : nReal is one of the most interesting AR startups out there. nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR that it told its customers and partners now is the last time to buy the device before stock runs out. With passthrough headsets still years out, and Magic Leap still focused on consumers, Microsoft dominated the enterprise AR market for years with HoloLens 2.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Image courtesy ‘WalkingCat’ The AR glasses appear to be tethered on the left temple, suggesting it could have a dedicated compute unit that users can pocket, such as Magic Leap 1. The headset’s near-eye optics sit behind the glass frame.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s most recent smartglasses (or rather smart glass ), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to developers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain Mozilla announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the Firefox Reality web browser to the recently revealed Microsoft HoloLens 2. Image courtesy Mozilla. SEE ALSO 3 Impressive WebVR Examples Worth Checking Out With Firefox's New Support for Vive and Rift.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

percent from 2019. Oculus Quest — the fastest growing standalone — sold about 425,000 units in 2019 according to our calculations. Microsoft committed 100,000 units to the U.S. This category includes Magic, Leap One and Nreal Light. Specifically, IDC projects a year-over-year decline in shipments of 10.5

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In September of 2019, the company announced that its Facebook Reality Lab is currently in development of its own AR headset. The Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap One: Creator Edition—while impressive pieces of hardware—have yet to capture the attention of mainstream audiences.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2021

For someone who typically wears the same color scheme – brown pants and a white shirt – all the time, I’ve never been much of a fashion guru so brands haven’t meant much to me and I didn’t really understand how augmented reality could change that until I met Ashley Crowder, CEO and Co-Founder of VNTANA at a conference in 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today, at MWC 2019, Alex Kipman went on stage together with Satya Nadella and Julia White to announce the new HoloLens 2. They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. Woman wearing a HoloLens2 device (Image by Microsoft).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Microsoft is talking for the first time today about a new customer of its HoloLens augmented reality headset: publicly traded medical device company Stryker. While Magic Leap has faced questions about the state of its technology in recent months, the venture-backed startup does represent competition to the HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2020

[link] @EdWeekEdTech @EdMarketBrief @educationweek #edtech #VR #AR #videogame #videogames @playtablecraft @schellgames @NWEA — Michelle Goldchain (@goldchainam) January 23, 2019. Thank you @usedgov for hosting us at the 2019 Ed Games Expo. Looking forward to witnessing the evolution of learning!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Plus it’s even weirder that HTC needed 2 years to bring it to the market (it was announced in 2019). Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. As I’ve reported to you last week, Microsoft’s latest Ignite conference, where Microsoft Mesh was announced, was a true marvel, an example of how a truly immersive keynote should be held.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

As a result, companies like Apple, Google, Magic Leap, Microsoft, Oculus, and others will be in attendance with experiences. The report is full of experiences that those in the medical fields and spatial industries will relate to. Likewise, you may see these interviewees at XRDC and can swap and share experiences.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap Inc. , As stated, they are thinking of taking part in a new financing round of more than $500 million, bringing Magic Leap valuation close to $6 billion. Magic Leap’s last financing round, led by Alibaba , valued the company at $4.5 a Florida-based startup that’s raised more than $1.3

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

What progress did we see in 2019? We are fundamentally visual creatures who think in three dimensions and live in a physical world […] As Kevin Kelly penned in his article entitled Mirrorworld in 2019, we are entering the photonic era, an era shaped by light.” Other signals abound if you consider all the AR action in 2019.

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